Lawrence D. Frank, Ph.D., AICP, CIP, ASLA, is the Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation at the University of British Columbia, Senior Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution, and President of Urban Design 4 Health. He specializes in the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality; and health and the fuel consumption and climate change impacts of urban form policies. Frank has been studying the effects of neighborhood walkability on travel patterns and sustainability for 20 years. He works directly with local governments to help translate results from research into practice-based tools that provide direct feedback on the health and environmental impacts of alternative transportation and land development proposals.
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